During this period, I consider him chronically and severely psychotic, ... But it would be disingenuous for me to say that at any given particular moment he was psychotic. |
He was desperate to control the voices, ... He had the sudden distorted perception that if he dropped bags of cement or shot at cars, it would attenuate the voices. |
It's very common in paranoid schizophrenics to have areas of significant impairment and islands where cognitive skills are preserved, |
Most people don't like to think of themselves as nuts, ... It's common to shut off the part of memory that describes illness. |